Nicole Brossard OC CQ (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist.

[1][2] Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes[3] and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.

In 1975, she participated in a meeting of writers on women, after which she began to take an activist role in the feminist movement,[7] and to write poetry with a more personal and subjective tone.

Brossard co-founded a feminist newspaper, Les têtes de pioches, with France Théoret.

[9] Brossard's poetry collection, Double Impression, won the 1984 Governor General's Award.